Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Heiress Matter 06/07/1959

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar – "The Wayward Heiress Matter" (06/07/1959)

Main Theme and Purpose

In this classic detective radio episode, freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called upon to probe an urgent matter regarding an old flame, Virginia (Ginny) Van Doren—now Mrs. Haskell, an heiress whose husband may be in mortal danger. The story fuses romance, jealousy, secrets, and murder, all under the veneer of a routine insurance consultation, unfolding in a fashionably dangerous corner of suburban New York.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. An Unexpected Case from the Past

• Johnny is contacted by Al Turner of New Britain Mutual Insurance about a client urgently seeking him—Virginia Haskell (née Van Doren), an old college acquaintance (00:18–01:13).
• Johnny reminisces about Ginny, describing her as “one of the most delectable bits of feminine pulkritude I ever ran up against. Believe me, a young man's fancy didn't have to wait for spring to turn to thoughts of her.” (01:44–00:58)

2. The Love Triangle and Backstory

• Ginny’s college romance with Paul Snowden ended because of her inheritance. Paul’s pride wouldn’t let him accept help or marry into wealth (04:21–06:28).

  • Notable flashback: Ginny offered to finance Paul’s struggling business, but he refused, accusing her of pitying him.

• Ginny’s marriage to Gordon Haskell: She confesses the marriage may have been on the rebound but insists she loves Gordon, though perhaps “not in the same way” as Paul (06:53–07:15).

3. Rising Threat and Tension

• Ginny fears for Gordon’s life, believing Paul has come to New York to kill him out of jealousy (07:28–08:46).

  • She states, “Paul Snowden has come here to kill my husband.” (08:11)
  • When challenged by Johnny, Ginny says, “He said that he would kill anybody else who married me. And he will, Johnny.” (08:42–08:46)

• Gordon is kept in hiding at a nearby hotel to protect him until Paul can be dealt with (10:54–11:02).

4. Johnny Dollar Investigates

• Johnny promises to help, both for Ginny’s sake and the insurance company’s interests: “If by any chance what you suspect is true, if Paul really has come here to get him…” (11:54–12:02)

5. Confrontation and Violence

• As Johnny leaves the house, he’s confronted and attacked by Paul Snowden outside his car. Paul flashes photostats from police files in several Western states, then physically assaults Johnny (13:27–14:32).
  • After the attack, Ginny and Gordon find Johnny, who finally concedes: “Jenny, I guess if you didn't convince me, Paul has.” (14:50)

6. Twists and Revelations

• As Johnny recovers, he deduces there’s more beneath the surface: Why did Paul show him criminal records? Did Gordon and Paul really not know each other? (15:22–16:00)
• Johnny doubles back, staking out the Haskell home for further developments.

7. The Truth Comes Out

• Gordon, revealed as a serial conman and killer: When Gordon tries to flee with Ginny’s money at gunpoint, Paul intervenes and shoots him—non-fatally (17:26–18:25).
• Paul explains Gordon's criminal background: “He has a record as long as your arm, under various names. Wealthy women. Married them, took their money… and some of them, well, he killed them.” (18:49–19:05)
• Ginny, shocked and betrayed, exclaims, “Paul. I didn't know. I. I didn't know.” (19:05)

8. Resolution

• Paul apologizes to Johnny for attacking him earlier, saying he mistook Johnny for Gordon in the dark (19:08–19:13).
• Johnny speculates about Ginny and Paul’s future together, relieved the dangerous episode has concluded.

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Notable Quotes and Timestamps

• Johnny Dollar reminiscing on Ginny:
  “One of the most delectable bits of feminine pulkritude I ever ran up against.” (00:44–00:58)

• Ginny’s fear for her husband:
  “Paul Snowden has come here to kill my husband.” (08:11)

• Johnny drawing the line:
  “Oh, look, Jenny, I'm an insurance investigator, not a love counselor.” (09:52)

• Gordon’s cowardice and desperation:
  “I'm not staying around here with Paul Snowden gunning for me…Give me the money, Virginia. Or do you want a dead husband on your hands?” (17:37–17:57)

• Paul revealing Gordon’s crimes:
  “He has a record as long as your arm, under various names. Wealthy women. Married them, took their money… and some of them, well, he killed them.” (18:49–19:05)

• Johnny’s wry sign-off:
  “Well, maybe Paul and Janine will finally get together. For keeps. I don't even know whether I care. I'm just glad I wasn't involved, that is. Any more than I was.” (19:13–19:28)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:18–01:13: Al Turner notifies Johnny Dollar about Ginny Haskell
• 04:15–07:15: Ginny recounts her past with Paul and marriage to Gordon
• 07:28–08:46: Ginny reveals her fear of Paul’s motive
• 10:54–11:02: Gordon in hiding; stakes risen
• 13:27–14:32: Paul Snowden’s confrontation and attack on Johnny
• 17:26–17:57: Gordon’s true character emerges; he tries to take money and run
• 18:49–19:05: Paul Snowden’s exposé of Gordon’s criminal past

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Memorable Moments

• The subversion of expectations: Johnny Dollar thinks he's investigating a routine jealousy/murder risk insurance matter, but learns the supposed victim is the real threat.
• Paul’s intervention is both redemptive and cathartic, saving Ginny and apprehending a dangerous predator.
• Final dry humor as Johnny files his meager expense report, glad to be done.

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Original Language & Tone

The episode’s dialogue is sharp, melodramatic, tinged with classic detective sarcasm and late 1950s period charm. The interplay between Johnny’s wry skepticism, Ginny’s earnest distress, and Paul’s grim resolve maintains suspense throughout, culminating with a noir-appropriate twist.

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Recommended for fans of classic radio detective drama, especially those who appreciate tales where love, pride, and sinister secrets collide.

Transcript

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[Al Turner]

Johnny Dollar this is Al Turner at New Britain Mutual.

[Johnny Dollar]

Hi, Al. What goes with you these days, Johnny?

[Al Turner]

One of our important clients is very anxious to get in touch with you. Says that she's an old friend of yours.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, who's that?

[Al Turner]

Her name is Mrs. Virginia Haskell.

[Johnny Dollar]

Virginia Haskell?

[Al Turner]

That's right.

[Johnny Dollar]

Sorry, Al, but I'm afraid I never.

[Al Turner]

Heard of her before she got married about a year ago. Her name was Van Doren.

[Johnny Dollar]

Ginny Van Doren?

[Al Turner]

Yes.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, well, now that's something else again. And I mean something.

[Al Turner]

Well, then you do know her.

[Johnny Dollar]

One of the most delectable bits of feminine pulkritude I ever ran up against. Believe me, a young man's fancy didn't have to wait for spring to turn to thoughts of her.

[Al Turner]

Now what's that mean, Al?

[Johnny Dollar]

Even I had serious ideas about that gal at one time. Yeah, right after college. Isn't every kid of that age intrigued by the idea of marrying into a fortune? And very beautiful. At least she was when I knew her.

[Al Turner]

Still is, Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

So she's married to somebody by the name of Haskell, huh?

[Al Turner]

Gordon Haskell. They live on Birch Brook Road down in Bronxville, New York.

[Johnny Dollar]

Funny.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

What?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, when I knew her, that blonde charmer didn't have eyes for anybody but Paul Snowden.

[Al Turner]

Who's Paul Snowden?

[Johnny Dollar]

Childhood sweetheart, that sort of thing. Poor boy, making good on his own. You know the bit.

[Narrator]

Ah, yes.

[Al Turner]

Too proud to marry her because of her money.

[Johnny Dollar]

But she swore that she'd never marry anybody else. That he was her one true love. But I. I guess she changed her mind. What did she want to see me about, Al?

[Al Turner]

She didn't say. She did make it clear, however, that it has to do with some of the family insurance.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, that's as good an excuse as any.

[Al Turner]

Well, then, do you want to run.

[Johnny Dollar]

On down there for a longing look at the gorgeous Ginny Van Doren? But it'll cost you money, Al.

[Al Turner]

Listen, Johnny, with the premiums we get for all the insurance she carries, life, house, property and so on. The sky's the limit, brother.

[Johnny Dollar]

Have you stuck your neck out?

[Al Turner]

Well, now, that doesn't mean you have to, Albert.

[Johnny Dollar]

I'll be in touch, Foreign.

[Narrator]

Bailey, in the Intriguing adventures of the man with the action packed expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yours truly, Johnny Doll.

[Narrator]

And now, act one of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the New Britain Mutual Insurance Company, home office, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the wayward heiress. I decided it might be handy to have my own car along for this one. So, expense account item one, four dollars and a quarter for a tank full of gas. I picked up the freeway and headed south and west to fashionable Westchester County, New York. To me, Bronxville has always been one of New York's most charming suburbs. Only about 20 miles north of the big city. It's full of beautiful homes with lots of trees and expensive landscape properties. There's a lot wealth in Bronxville. The Haskell home on Birchbrook Road was a huge English type affair built of stone and stucco. The kind of place that'll last a hundred years. Eighteen or twenty rooms, I'd guess. And surrounded by well kept lawns and flower gardens, oak and sycamore trees and neatly trimmed hedges. Yep, a big hunk of the Van Doren oil money must have gone into it. Unless young Haskell was mighty rich. Virginia, looking every bit as beautiful as I'd remembered her from college back in the Midwest, greeted me like a long lost. Well, brother, darn it.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

And Johnny, I'm so glad you could come. I. I'm worried sick.

[Johnny Dollar]

Worried about what?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Jenny Gordon, my husband.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, look, it's none of my business, but it. Well, it kind of surprised me to learn you'd married somebody other than Paul Snowden.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

It's Paul who has me worried, Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

Paul.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes. How? Well, back in the old days in college, I wasn't interested in anybody in the world but Paul. I mean, seriously.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, I remember the rest of us couldn't get to first base with you.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

I loved him, Johnny. And I hoped that as soon as he could get established in a business of some kind, he'd ask me to marry him.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, what stopped him, Jenny?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Money. When father died and all the Van Doren money came to me, Paul suddenly changed. He stopped seeing me. He even avoided me. So then. Well, I guess what I did was make a mistake.

[Johnny Dollar]

What was that?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

I went to see him at his little plant there in Chicago.

[Johnny Dollar]

Chicago?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

That's where we were living then. And Johnny, the only reason he stayed there was to be close to me.

[Johnny Dollar]

So you went to see him?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes, and I proposed to him all also. Well, this was the big mistake. I offered to finance the machine tool business that he was trying so hard to build up. But he didn't like that and told me so. I'm afraid there Was quite a scene there.

[Paul Snowden]

You've just been looking down your nose at me all these years. It's been nothing but pity.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Snowden]

Poor timid little me. Needs help, maybe needs mothering by somebody who pities him. By somebody who can afford to support him.

[Gordon Haskell]

Paul, that isn't true.

[Paul Snowden]

Then why do you come offering help, offering money? I don't want pity. Somebody holding up my head for me. I've got to work this out alone. It may take me a long time, but I'm not going to. Oh, I'm sorry, Jenny. But don't you see? I love you. I'll never love anybody else.

[Gordon Haskell]

Then why don't you let me?

[Paul Snowden]

Don't you understand? I'll never get anywhere on your charity.

[Johnny Dollar]

You're feeling sorry for me.

[Gordon Haskell]

Oh, darling, please.

[Johnny Dollar]

All right, all right.

[Paul Snowden]

The less we see of each other now, the better. Maybe sometime, but no, not now. Find somebody else, Jenny. Somebody who can give you the things you need and want.

[Johnny Dollar]

Uh huh. A little too much pride for his own good, I'd say.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

It upset me terribly, Johnny. Especially when he told me to go out and find somebody else.

[Johnny Dollar]

But I take it you did.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Then Gordon came along. Sort of caught me on the rebound, I guess. Tall, good looking. He fell in love with me the first time we ever met. I guess he kind of swept me off my feet.

[Johnny Dollar]

But now that the honeymoon's over, he's.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Been wonderful to me. And I love Gordon, Johnny. I love him very much.

[Johnny Dollar]

As much as Paul?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Not perhaps in the same way. But we're very happy together. And there's never been any strain or tension because of this. This difference in our fortunes.

[Johnny Dollar]

Gordon isn't wealthy either.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Well, he hasn't what I have, of.

[Johnny Dollar]

Course, but he manages to get along.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

And I'm being a good wife to him.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, I'm sure you are, Jenny.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

And don't you see?

[Gordon Haskell]

If Paul, because of his jealousy, were to kill Gordon.

[Johnny Dollar]

Jenny. You mean you honestly believe he might?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. That's why I sent for him.

[Johnny Dollar]

But good heavens, gal.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Johnny, you've got to stop him.

[Narrator]

And now, act two of yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the Wayward Heiress matter.

[Johnny Dollar]

All right, now Jenny, listen to me.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

It's true, Johnny.

[Gordon Haskell]

I'm sure of it. Paul Snowden has come here to kill my husband.

[Johnny Dollar]

He's. He's told you as much.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Haven't you been listening to me? Well, of course I have.

[Gordon Haskell]

Maybe my marriage to Gordon was on the rebound. On the spur of the moment. Call it anything, you. But it was Paul who turned me.

[Johnny Dollar]

Down, at least for the time being.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

I told you what he said.

[Johnny Dollar]

And simply because of a misguided sense of pride. Because you had money and he didn't.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, how did Paul take it when he learned that you were going to marry Gordon?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

I mean, he was terribly angry. He made all sorts of wild threats.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, now, that doesn't necessarily.

[Gordon Haskell]

He said that he would kill anybody.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Else who married me. And he will. Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

Does he know Gordon?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

He's never seen him.

[Johnny Dollar]

But he wants to kill him. Oh, Ginny, that doesn't make any sense.

[Gordon Haskell]

Don't you understand? It was to get away from Paul that Gordon and I came here to get married and settle down.

[Johnny Dollar]

Because you were afraid you might still be in love with Paul.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

It isn't a very nice thing to say, Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

But it could be true, couldn't it? Is Gordon in business here in the East?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Well, he. I've helped him to start one, Johnny. A little importing business.

[Johnny Dollar]

What did he do before, Jenny?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Well, his family had quite a bit of money once they lost it all in some bad speculations.

[Gordon Haskell]

Well, if you must know, Gordon just.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Sort of played around for a while.

[Johnny Dollar]

Did Paul know all this?

[Gordon Haskell]

I don't know.

[Johnny Dollar]

Because if he did, maybe you shouldn't blame the poor hard working guy for not liking him.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

But Gordon is good and he's good to me.

[Johnny Dollar]

He's good to you? Seems to me you're the one.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

You mustn't say that, Johnny.

[Gordon Haskell]

He is good to me. He's all I have now.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Only Paul hadn't found out where we've come to live.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh, look, Jenny, I'm an insurance investigator, not a love counselor. And what's the matter?

[Gordon Haskell]

Don't you believe me all I've told you? Or are you just trying to be very cold blooded about this shinny?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

All right then.

[Gordon Haskell]

This happens to be a cold blooded insurance matter. For the simple reason that Gordon's life is insured. And if you have no heart, if all you can think about is business. All right, it's your job to keep Paul from killing Gordon.

[Johnny Dollar]

Now listen, Ginny, you've been married nearly a year. Nothing's happened, nothing at all. Yet now all of a sudden, because.

[Gordon Haskell]

Paul has come here, he telephoned me and there can be only one reason why he's here.

[Johnny Dollar]

I doubt that. But where is he?

[Gordon Haskell]

In New York, at a hotel.

[Johnny Dollar]

What hotel?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

He didn't say.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, is he coming out here to the house?

[Gordon Haskell]

He said he wouldn't come until he could be sure that Gordon was here.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

And then Then to prepare for the worst.

[Gordon Haskell]

Those were his very words, Johnny. Prepare for the worst.

[Johnny Dollar]

Wasn't Gordon here when he phoned?

[Gordon Haskell]

Yes, but I didn't tell him that.

[Johnny Dollar]

Where's Gordon now?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Over in Larchmont, at the Beverly Arm.

[Johnny Dollar]

In hiding. In other words.

[Gordon Haskell]

I want him to stay there until something can be done about Paul, that's all.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, if Paul's so all fired determined.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

He is, Johnny. He always was.

[Johnny Dollar]

That could be a pretty admirable quality, Jenny.

[Gordon Haskell]

Of course it is. But when he's determined to do such a horrible.

[Johnny Dollar]

Johnny, time is precious.

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[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Darling, I don't understand you, the way.

[Gordon Haskell]

You'Re taking all this.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Are you going to help me or aren't you?

[Johnny Dollar]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, Jenny. I'll see what I can do. If by any chance what you suspect is true, if Paul really has come here to get him.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Of course he has.

[Gordon Haskell]

Paul doesn't give up, no matter what he set out to do.

[Johnny Dollar]

Which is to say that sooner or later, if you'd kept your head, if you hadn't gone off the deep end, if you had waited and married him.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Jenny, I know I should have. I should have waited for him, no matter how long it took.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, and. What?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

No, Johnny, I didn't mean that. I'm married to Gordon now and I must protect him.

[Johnny Dollar]

Okay, then the first thing to do is get him over here. Sure, if Paul's staying undercover, it's the only way to bring him out in the open.

[Gordon Haskell]

But if anything happens to me, like.

[Johnny Dollar]

You say, it's my job to see that it doesn't. I'll see you later.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Johnny Dollar]

Like I've said many times before, in this business of mine, you run into some real wildies. And this was one of them. Made me feel like an advice to the Loveshorn column. And it was pretty obvious that Ginny was still in love with Paul. That she was sorry she had married and was supporting this Gordon Haskell, who incidentally, must have been a smart cookie to have caught her on the rebound, latched onto her and her fortune but she'd made her bed, and by golly, out of nothing but stubborn pride, she was gonna lie in was well after dark by the time I left her. And as I walked out to my car, I decided that what I'd better do first was to locate Paul Snowden somewhere in some hotel in New York City, find out what this whole crazy affair was really all about. But then, as I reached for the door handle on my car.

[Paul Snowden]

Just a minute.

[Johnny Dollar]

Huh? Yeah.

[Paul Snowden]

I've been waiting for you.

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh. Who are you? As if I couldn't guess, Mister, I.

[Paul Snowden]

Found out all about you, why you came here.

[Al Turner]

Me?

[Johnny Dollar]

Oh.

[Paul Snowden]

If you don't believe me, take a look at these photostats from the police files in half a dozen Western states.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, now, just. Just take it easy. Let me put on the dash light so I can take a look at them.

[Paul Snowden]

You'll have plenty of time to look.

[Johnny Dollar]

At them when I'm with you. I ought to kill you.

[Paul Snowden]

All right, now.

[Johnny Dollar]

You want some more?

[Gordon Haskell]

Johnny. What on earth's going on out there, huh? Johnny.

[Johnny Dollar]

What?

[Gordon Haskell]

Johnny.

[Paul Snowden]

Oh, no.

[Johnny Dollar]

Paul.

[Gordon Haskell]

Paul, what have you done to Johnny Dollar? Johnny, dear, this is terrible.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, it ain't exactly good.

[Gordon Haskell]

That was Paul.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

I saw him.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah, So I figured he must have.

[Gordon Haskell]

Found out that I sent for you. Why, if I hadn't come out of the house to see what the noise was all about, he might. Don't you see, Johnny? Don't you believe me now when I say he's come here to kill Gordon?

[Johnny Dollar]

Jenny, I guess if you didn't convince me, Paul has.

[Narrator]

Now act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

I went back into the house with Ginny's help and a good stiff drink plus her tender menstruations brought me back to normal. I suppose I could make all sorts of excuses about having been caught off guard, but I won't. Paul Snowden had a good pair of fists and he knew how to use them. My plan had been to call on the New York City Police for help in locating Paul. But now this had suddenly become a father personal matter. And yet. Wait a minute.

[Paul Snowden]

Jenny.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes, Johnny?

[Gordon Haskell]

Are you feeling.

[Johnny Dollar]

Didn't you tell me that Paul and your husband Gordon didn't know each other, had never met?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Yes.

[Johnny Dollar]

What about those papers? The photostats?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Papers?

[Johnny Dollar]

And we've been thinking that Paul jumped me because he'd found out you'd called me in to protect Gordon.

[Gordon Haskell]

Of course.

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, it just happens we were wrong.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Johnny, I don't understand.

[Johnny Dollar]

Listen, I'll be right back.

[Gordon Haskell]

But, Johnny, he may still be out there.

[Johnny Dollar]

Somewhere, I wouldn't be at all surprised. Well.

[Gordon Haskell]

But, Johnny, don't you.

[Johnny Dollar]

I found no sign of Paul or the papers he'd shoved at me. But I was certain that he was still in the neighborhood, waiting. But not for me. I jumped into my car, drove away, then circled around the block, parked, and sneaked into the house the back way.

[Gordon Haskell]

Johnny. I thought it was Gordon coming in this back door. I phoned him that Paul had been here.

[Johnny Dollar]

Yeah? What'd he say?

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Only that until Paul is taken care.

[Gordon Haskell]

Of, he'd better get out of town. But, Johnny, that's such a. Oh, great.

[Johnny Dollar]

And yet, if he plans on being away for any length of time. Excuse me a minute. Yeah. There was a chance, a bare chance, that this whole thing could come to a head very quickly. With a bit of luck, I opened the front door, then called out into the darkness beyond the porch. Paul. Paul Snowden, this is Johnny Dollar. If you're out there, stick around. Now, listen, I'm leaving this front door unlocked, so use your own judgment. I went back into the library. Standing there with Jenny was a man a few years older, slightly gray around the temples. He had a worried, furtive look about his eyes. He was momentarily startled when I walked in on him.

[Gordon Haskell]

Johnny. Gordon, this is Johnny Dollar.

[Johnny Dollar]

Hiya, Gordon.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

He sneaked in the back way, John.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

But I'm not staying around to get killed. Now, listen, Virginia.

[Gordon Haskell]

Gordon, it'll be all right now.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

No, I don't know who Dollar is or why you've called him in, but I'm not staying around here with Paul Snowden gunning for me.

[Johnny Dollar]

You're afraid of him, Gordon.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Wouldn't you be? Come on, Virginia, open up the safe. You've got plenty of money in it. I know, but. Look, darling, come on, get it for me. Give it to me.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

To run away like this.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Oh, because Paul wouldn't run away.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

You know that isn't what I.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Give me the money, Virginia. Or do you want a dead husband on your hands?

[Johnny Dollar]

Well, now, listen, Gordon.

[Narrator]

You listen.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

This is none of your business.

[Johnny Dollar]

I wouldn't be too sure of that.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Well, I am, Virginia.

[Johnny Dollar]

Now, just a minute. Will you keep out of this? No.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Oh, yes, you will. You see what I mean, Gordon?

[Gordon Haskell]

That gun.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Give me that money so I can save my life.

[Johnny Dollar]

Put that thing down, Gordon.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

Stand back, $.

[Johnny Dollar]

I'll pull this trigger, brother. That's what you think. Yes.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Ooh.

[Johnny Dollar]

I'll kill you. Thanks, Paul.

[Paul Snowden]

I aimed low, $. I'm afraid.

[Johnny Dollar]

He'll live. Yeah, he'll be okay.

[Paul Snowden]

Should have killed him. I guess, but I'd rather see him face the courts.

[Gordon Haskell]

Paul, what are you talking about?

[Johnny Dollar]

Those photostats you have.

[Paul Snowden]

Yeah. Police files all over the West. He has a record as long as your arm, under various names. Wealthy women. Married them, took their money.

[Gordon Haskell]

Oh, no.

[Paul Snowden]

Yes, Jenny and some of them. Well, he killed them.

[Virginia Haskell (Ginny Van Doren)]

Paul. I didn't know. I. I didn't know.

[Paul Snowden]

I'm sorry, $, about what happened outside earlier. But in the darkness, I thought you were Gordon.

[Johnny Dollar]

It's okay, Paul. You've more than made up for it. Well, maybe Paul and Janine will finally get together. For keeps.

[Gordon Haskell (continued)]

I don't know.

[Johnny Dollar]

I don't even know whether I care. I'm just glad I wasn't involved, that is. Any more than I was. Expense account total, including mileage of my car back to Hartford. A lousy 10 bucks. Yours truly, Johnny Doll.

[Narrator]

Our star will return in just a moment. Now, here is our star to tell you about next week's story.

[Johnny Dollar]

Next week, a sweet little old lady involved in one of the dirtiest rackets I know. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Doll.

[Narrator]

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia Greg, Les Tremaine, Sam Edwards and James McCallion. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Cubberly speaking.